Word: earth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominance of the tall man was not always apparent, as diminutive guard Ellen Seidler brought the giant Morgan back to earth with a slap-stuff that sent the Radcliffe bench reeling with delight...
...raised against the Concorde, as well as against the ill-fated Boeing SST that was scrapped in 1971. There were prophecies that supersonic aircraft would emit such great quantities of water vapor that a permanent cloud barrier would shut out the sun; this "greenhouse" effect would dangerously raise the earth's surface temperature. There were also predictions of skin cancer epidemics: nitrogen oxides released by the SSTs would destroy the ozone layer that partly shields the earth against the sun's lethal ultraviolet radiation. Then too, the SST's fumes were denounced as a potential new cause...
Gary Wright, with Manfred Mann's Earth Band and John Miles will be at the Music Hall on April 2 at 8 p.m. Go home for vacation...
...reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework. Her dream is to get Jed up and out of Dugton as soon as possible...
...Place to Come To is ruminative, but it is not a novel of ideas or analysis. Jed Tewksbury may reflect the disaffected rootlessness of his generation, but he constantly touches earth through the women in his life, his interest in medieval courtly love poetry and Dante, and in his grand solitude, which whistles mournfully through the book. Warren tells us much about the forms of love-not the least of which he has elsewhere set forth in poetry: "In our imagination/ What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge. " R.Z. Sheppard